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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10
THE OCCASION LOST.
A Woman's View of the Recent Constitu-
tional Celebration at Philadelphia.

A womsn's View of the Recent Constitu-
tional Celebration at Philadelphia,
The Centennial observance of the
adoption of the Constitution was a
grand industrial, military and civic
display. In that respect it left moth
ing to be desired. Too much honor
can not be given to the men by whom,
and to the day on which, the founda-
ton was laid that made this great
Nation possible.
But it Is easier TO celebrate great
ness than to achieve H. This very oc-
casion was most Opportune for re-
affirming the principle laid down a
hundred years ago. that the consent
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10
A NEW NATIONAL HYMN.

Hail, Freedom! thy bright crest
And cleaning shield, thrice blest.
Mirror the glories OF a world thine own:
Hail. Heayen-born Peace! Our sight
Led by thy gentle light
Shows us thy paths with deathess flowers
strewn.
Peace daughter OF strife sublime.
Abide with us till strife be lost in endless time.
CHORUS.
Thy sun is risen and shall not set
Upon thy day divine
Ages OF unborn ages vet
America, are thlnel
Her one hand seals with gold
The portals OF nights fold,
Her other the broad gates OF dawn unbars:
Der silent wastes OF SHOWS,
Growing her lofty brows,
Cleans high her diadem of Northern stars:
While clothed in garlands Of warm flowers,
Round Freedoms feet the South her wealth of
beauty showers.
Sweet is the toll Of peace,
Sweet the year rich increase
To loyal men who live by Freedoms laws;
And in wars fierce alarms
God gives stout hearts and arms
TO frcemen sworn TO save rightful cause.
Fear none, trust God, maintain the right,
And triumph in unbroken Unions peerless
might.
Welded In wars fierce flame,
Forged On the hearth of fame,
The sacred constitution was ordained:
Tried in the fire of time,
Tempered In woes sublime,
An age has passed and left it yet unstained:
God grant its glores still may shine
While ages fade forgotten in times slow de-
cline!
Honor the few who shared
Freedoms first fight and dared
To face wars desperate tide at the full food I;
Who fell on hard-won ground
And into Freedoms wound
Poured the sweet balsam OF their brave
hearts blood
They fell but DER their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to
save
In radiance heavenly fair
Floats on the peaceful air
That flag that never stopped from victory S
pride;
Those stars that softly gleam,
Those stripes that DER us stream,
In wars grand agony were sanctifed;
A holy standard, pure and free,
To light the home of peace or blaze in vic
tory.
Father, whose mighty power
Shields us through life's short hour,
TO Thee we pray Bless us and keep us free
All that is past forgive,
Teach us henceforth to live
That through our country we may honor
Thee;
And, when this mortal life shall cease,
Take Thou at last our souls to Thine eterna
peace.
E Marion Crawford
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10

Some Catch to the Business-''Do
you inshure hosses, sah?" inquired
Uncle Zeke of an agent 'Oh. yes, we
issue policies on them" ''Well, sab,
rse gwine to take out apolicy on my
ole ssw-hoss Sam Johnsing am gwine
to steal him, I'm tole, an" I'VE
don't insure saw-horses 'Well, if
yer gwine ter tro bizness away like dat.
all right. | 'spected dar wuz some
ketch to dis tizness wen Iheerd OBJ it. "
-7Id-BitS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10

The ex-Empress Eugenie uses an
umbrella which cost two thousand dol
lars. The handle is a mass Of splen-
did gems,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
A CHILD AND IT'S FATHER.
A Few Facts That Read More
Like Fiction Than Otherwise.

Help! nelp! mercy
These were the cries that rang out on
the midnight air a few nights ago and
fell ON the ear of Officer Gerber, whose
beat lies along Eighth street, between
Robert and Jackson. Uncovering his
dark lantern and grasping his revolver,
the officer started in the direction from
which the cries had come, and soon
found himself at the door of a tumble
down Shanty, standing back from the
street. and presenting an appearance of
decentralization. The glass in the
windows was broken, the clap-boards
were weather-beaten, warped, weeds
grew round the doorsteps, and up from
the yard came a sickening STENCIL
To this point he traced the
cries, and, thrusting open the
door, he went inside. There was
that Shone through the glass BULBS eve
of his lantern, and flashing it around
the apartment he discovered the figure
of female, PROSTATE ON the floor, half
buried beneath pile of filthy rags.
She was colored and her black face was
knotted and scanned with the agony
that she struggled to dissemble.
whats the matter?" inquired the
officer, bending over the writhing fig
'.Gisde doctor quick; Pm sick,n was
the reply that came in strained voice
through clenched teeth.
Has anybody hurt you?" asked the
officer.
No, no; Pm sick. Git de doctor
quick"
Setting down his lantern so that its
bar of light lay across the quiverlng
features of the woman the officer went
out and soon returned accompanied by
two charitably inclined colored ladies
who at once went about relieving the,
sufferer. The officer next summoned
the city physician, and when the man
of medicine walked into the squallid
apartment, he found the three women,
examining healthy newly-born child
and Interestingly engaged in discussing
its fine points. The mother was re-
moved to neighboring house, where
she was cared for and the baby is doing
splendidly.
About the same hour that the child
was born in the Eighth street hoyel,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27

and the same night, in dilapidated
house in Chicago, on the South side,
two men were engaged in mortal COM
bat. They were colored. and as they
fought over the favOrs of the worthless
woman, who watched the struggle with
clenched hands and frightened eyes,
their faces twisted and worked with the
heat of jealousy and hatred that set
their muscles like the sinews of alton.
"Bang! Bang" 40
One of the men had drawn a revolver
and fired, and with the report bullet
went crashing through the skull OF the,
uppermOst man, and his soul floated up
ward with the smoke that curled from
the murderOus revolver. 3ei
The dead man was Harry WOodSor,:
the '.Black Diamond" well-known in
the Northwest as a prize-fighter,Ia and
the child that was born into the World
in the house on Eighth street was his
offspring and the mother was hiss law
fully welded wife. Though Harry
WoOdson is dead, who can say that his
spirit does not live in the child, ana that
it may develop into man with Drawn,
muscle and science sufficient to knock
out the redoubtable Billy Wilson who
was his fathers better? 80 d
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27

DAILY and Leidman seemed less opposed
to the confirmation, but Commissioner
Boyd could not be convinced. He said:
II can't understand why you did not en-
ploy expert architects and geu their opinions
before accepting any of the bids. Talk
about patronizing home industry, think you
reached out a long arm this time"
DIR. Day answered that it would be i'm
possible to give specifications before ad-
vertising, because every contractor has
his own patents. and in so doing
SOME OF THE PATENTS
would be infringed upon, and then the
county would have several suits on
hand. Mr.. Dawson said if this building
is delayed, the responsibility will be
upon she commissioners. Mr.. Boyd
stated that he was just the man to stand
that responsibility. Mr.. Dawson re-
marked that he rather admired the
twelfth juror, who said he
never saw eleven such stubborn men.
Boyd felt himself aggrieved and he ex-
pressed himself quite forcibly. Mr..
Dawson then said that he and DR.. Day
had been connected with public build
ings and he believed the general opin-
ion was that they were men of some in
telligence, some common sense, and
owing to their age and long experience
better fitted for the position than young
men.
Yes said Mr.. Boyd, ''but there are men
seventy years old behind the bars nChicago."
Mr.. Dawson was visibly affected by this re-
mark, and rising he said: "Mr. Boyd / would
never associate your name with the public
robbers of Chicago, but you can do as you
like about it,
Mr.. Boyd assured Mr.. Dawson that
he intended no insinuation concerning
his honesty, and when the meeting
broke up the best of feeling prevailed
and Mr.. Boyd seemed almost persuaded.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
TO PAY THE. TEACHERS.
A $4,000 Loan Authorized by thu
Board of Education.


Board of Education.
A special meeting of the board of ed
ucation was held last evening for the
purpose of providing for the payment of
the salaries Of the teachers and other
school officers for September. A reso-
luton was passed authorizing the
proper officers to negotiate a loan of
$4,000 in advance of the tax levy, and
authorizing them to issue certificate of
indebtedness for the same bearing in
tereSt at a rate not to exceed z per cent.
per annum, maturing in six months or
less time, from the date of issue. Su-
perlntendent Taylor reported the
schools in good condition and running
nicely, with the exception of the heat
Ing arrangements in some of the build
Ings. he had authorized principals,
he said, to dismiss their
schools unless the mercury reached
at least 60o. The pay of substitute
teachers from the first to the fifth
grades was fixed at $3.50 per day, and
In the sixth, seventh and eighth grades
at 81 per day, the balance of the salary
to be paid to the regular teacher. The
foliowlng appointments of teachers
were confirmed:
Ilioo OeItruue VI. SiarlanQ, tn1rQ grade.
Adams school, vice Miss NJ Mcbride; Miss
Sophia Tener, first grade, same building;
Miss Laura Bartlett, primary principal in
same building and Miss Mary NJ Long, sec
ond grade, jefferson school, vice Miss Mary
Chapron. 49,.
A motion was passed authorizing the
opening of the night schools the first
monday of October, except in those
buildings not yet furnished with heat
ing apparatus. In these buildings the
opening will be delayed until the heat
ing plants are completed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27

bullets had no visible effect on the fish,
An attempt was made to catch him by
BATTING HEAVY HOOKS
with pork, attaching them to heavy
ropes and throwing them in the direc-
ton of the shark, but the fish seemed
to relish this, for he would turn on his
back. gObble up the pork and biting off
the rope, would eat and swallow the
pork and hooks with as much gustO as
an epicure would swallow half dozen
Sadie rock oysters, served on the half
shell. AT last the captain ordered the
ships blacksmith to make hook of inn
mense size with four barbed points
like a graphing IRON, and fastening
this, to an iron hawser it was baited
with fresh meat and tossed overheard.
The shark darted toward it and, with a
gulp, Swalled the meat, but was unable
to sever the iron hawser with his teeth
as he had done the rope. The hook
fastened itself in his stomach, and
hitching the chain to windlaSS, the
monster was drawn up and landed on
the ships deck, where he was dispatched
with axes and spears The shark
weighed 1,760 pounds and measured
twelve feet from the tip of his nose to
the end of his tail. Nov comes the
wonderful part of my story,' said the
senator, settling himself back in his
chair and crossing his legs, 1--WE cut the
shark open to see what effect the hooks
had had on his department of the
interior. When we cut open the stom-
ach we found a water pail, a child's
rocking horse, pair of fisherman's
boots, three empty beer bottles, a copy
of the London Times. the well-pre-
served seat of pair of trousers and a
square piece of pine board, on which
was painted the following sign:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
PERSONALS.

N. =. Clarke, of St. Cloud, called at the
capitol yesterday.
A B. Boynton, of Dakota. accompanied by
his wife, is stopping at the Hotel Ryan.
Thomas Simpson, prominent citizen and
attorney of WinOna, is at the Merchants.
N. P. Clark, the prominent lumber dealer
of st. Cloud, was among the guests at the
Merchants yesterday.
DR.. A. B. Aucker city and county physi-
clan. returned yesterday from ten days trip
to Chicago and New York.
John McCulloch, Stranavern, Scotland, and
Mrs. and Miss Scott, London. England, are
party of tourists at the Merchants.
N. G. Norton and wife, of Winona, were at
the Merchants yesterday. Mr. Norton is of
the lumber firm of Laird Norton d Co.
Insurance Commissioner Shandrew re-
turned from the East Sunday evening, and
was at his desk in the capitol yesterday
morning.
F. Jay Haynes, of Fargo, Oak, was noticed
among the guests at the Merchants yesterday.
Mr.. Haynes is official photographer for the
Northern Pacific and Manitoba railroads, and
has just returned from trip to Yellowstone
park. where he has been taking views of the
country
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
GLOBULES.

Bank clearings yesterday, S625, 1920
Three births six deaths and eight mar
riages were reported at the health office yes
terday.
A case Of scarlet fever at No. 169 Arundel
street was reported at the health office yes
terday.
quorum of members of the board of pub
lie works was not present yesterday, and all
business was adjourned to Thursday.
The ST. Paul Ice Carnival association, with
capital stock of S25, 900, has filed articles
of incorporation with the register of deeds.
John Mortenson. arrested on the charge of
adultery with Mary johnson, was released
from the county Jail yesterday on his own
recognizanee.
The meeting of the board of fire commits
sioners, which was to have been held last
night, was adjourned until o'clock this aft
ernoOn for lack of a quorum.
meeting of the West Seventh Street Dis
trict union will be held at A. o. U. W. hall,
corner Western avenue and West Seventh
street, this evening at O'Clock.
Members of all temperance societies s in ST ST
Paul are requested to meet in Crusaders hall
Friday evening at 7:30, to prepare an adj
dress to present to Cardinal Gibbons.
Gustave johnson, a young man thirty-three
years of age and of excellent habits, was adj
judged insane by Drs. Baker and Richardson
yesterday.
Articles of Incorporation of the Lawton
Real Estate company, of st. Paul, were filed
with Secretary Mattson yesterday. The cap
ital is placed at $4,000. The incorporators
are: A. E. Lawton, r. M. Lawton, j. H. Law
ton and Thomas X. Statellier. all of st. Paul.
Olaf F. Tenney, manager of the Cortland
Wagon company, which occupies the block
at No. 135 East Fifth street, was arraigned in
the municipal court yesterday on complaint
of Building Inspector johnson, and fined
500 for violating the ordinance requiring
trap doors in elevators.
The Ivy Leaf Dancing club was reorgan-
lied at meeting held last night and the fol
lowing officers were elected: j. Y. Twohy,
president; j. J. Gleason, vice president; j.
j. Conroy, secretary; J. T. Mulgrew, treas
urer. The club will inaugurate the season
with ball in the Drake block hall Friday
evening of next week.
meeting of the clergymen and laymen
of the different Episcopal churches of the
city was held at Christ's church parlors last
evening to talk over the necessity of organic
ing missions. Revs. Andrews, Pope and
Cooke and several laymen spoke of the needs
of mission to carry on work under Episco-
pal auspices, but no definite action was
taken.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27

priests in their cassocks and berettas.
The reception committee consists of G.
ID. O'Brien, j. /. Beaumont, John w.
Willis, John S. Prince, George Refs,
ALT DupreSne, j. b. Olivier, p. III. Kelly,
Thomas Brennan. 1t is expected that
besides Bishops Grace and Ireland, of
st. Paul, there will be present four
bishops from other parts of the country.
Bishop Ireland said yesterday that the
special telegram from Milwaukee which
appeared in yesterdays Pioneer Press
and which states that Cardinal Gibbons
will arrive in Milwaukee on THU sday
morning and be the guest of Archbishop
Hess during the day is entirely wrong.
The cardinal, the bishop says, will be in
Chicago during Tuesday and will be the
guest of Archbishop Feehan. He will
remain in Milwaukee only long enough
to pay his respects to Archbishop HeisS
of that place and will then depart for
st. Paul.
On next Sunday pontifcal high mass
will be celebrated at the cathedral at
1880 a. m. Bishop Marty, of James
town, Oak. will be the celebrant and
the sermon will be preached by His Emf
hence Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of
Baltimore. The regular pewholderS, as
all act of courtesy on this occasion have
been advised by the parish priest to
share their seats with those outside the
Catholic church, many of whom are eX-
pecteQ to be present
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
sPOoNER's SHARK STORY.

Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin,
Tells a Good Sized Shark Story.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin,d the
wiry little politician. was at the Aier-,
chants yesterday, comfortably enScOHced
beneath tall white hat. A few years.
ago he was attorney for the Omaha rail-
road and then it was that he was ac-'
cused of scheming in mastery way to
get through the legislature what is
known as the Omaha land grant bill
The fight made him famous and brought
him into prominence as politician,
Senator Spooner has just returned
from brief sojourn in Europe and
came UP to ST. Paul yesterday on fly
ing business trip, leaving for home last
night at. 5 o'clock. He is a clever
talker and while he wouldn't
have much of Importance to
say of politics yesterday, he chatted
pleasantly with a GLOBE reporter about
matters across the ocean and told a
shark story that will bear repeating.
Three weeks ago the senator boarded a
Cunard line steamer in Liverpool bound
for New York. The first three days out
were unmarked by any unusual incl
dent. On the morning of the fourth
day sailor called the attention of the
captain to large shark that was SWIM
ming leisurely along in the wake of the
steamer, evidently enjoying the commo-
ton in the water stirred up by the busy
screw. Some of the superstftious pas
sengers who had not forgotten the
stories they had read in their youth of
how sharks never followed vessel
unless some one aboard was
soon to, be. consigned to its
hungry jaws, became frightened
and begged the officers of the boat to
kill the shark by shooting if possible.
An attempt was made to do this, but
owing to the poor aim of the marlzsman
or the toughness of the sharks hide, the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27

Burns. who was married last Tuesday morn
ing to Frank l.. Cotter at WinOna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Hall, of Hastings,
Mimi, are visiting the Twin Cities.
Mrs. A. B. Tyrrell, of Hastings, is the
guest OF Mrs. E. b. Smith, of st. Paul.
Mrs. Tarbox, of Dayton avenue, is ent err
tanning Miss Jennie Taure, of France.
Col. J. K. Moore, of st. Anthony, is enter
tanning Alfred Wallin and family, OF Fargo.
Miss Abbie Heagy and Miss Birdie Bell of
Hastings, MIMI, are visiting their st. Paul
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. e. Rice, of Partridge ave-
nue., will take apartments at the Portlandfor
the winter.
Miss Hersey, of Saltwater, will spend the
winter with her sister, Mrs. Sherman Finch,
on Nina avenue.
Herr Paul Stoeving, the violinist has re-
turned to the city after an absence of several
/ months i'll Europe.
G. W. Tonson and family, of Chippewa
Falls, will arrive this week and make st.
Paul their future home.
Mrs. Callie Gibson. of Chicago, nee Miss
Callie Hoyt, who has been the guest Of Miss
Mae Murphy, has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner L. Welsh have re-
Gently moved from Omaha, and will be at
home at No. 693 Oakland avenue.
Miss Blanche Clements, of Prescott, Wis,
has returned home after visiting her rela-
tives, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Scott on Broadway.
Miss Edith Mayhem, of st. Paul, is visiting
friends at Anoka and will leave for Washing
ton, d. c., next month, where she will spend
the winter.
Charlie Day, of the class of SO at the High
school, left Sunday evening for Philadel-
f Rassa' "n'i' n' VIII en''f TIC -n''i'Ai '0'
Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss
Addie Miller, of Mortified, and Albert
Ruter, of st. Paul, to take place next Wednes-
day at All Saints church, Northfeld.
Mrs. A. J. McGilray, Mrs. s. W. Chinn,
Misses Nettie Stiles, Mary Raglan and Ida Nc
Clintock, all of Chippewa Falls, and guests
in the city during last week, have returned
home.
The ladies of the Clinton Avenue M. e.
church will give a reception to their new
pastor, Rev. DR.. Stout, and wife at the church
parlors Tuesday evening, Oct. a. Extensive
preparations'areb being made, and a cordial
invitation is extended to the members of
other churches to attend.
The League of the Cross Society of st.
Michael's church gave one of its semi
monthly entertainments Sunday evening.
Among the members who took part III the
programme were 7. D. O'Brien, John f. Car
rere, the Misses Duressee and Replies,
Messrs. Dempsey and Burke and Father Gal
lagher. The next meeting will be held next
Sunday evening, when John O'Brlen, OF
Saltwater president of the Total Abstinence,
societies of Minnesota, will address the audi
ence.
A committee comprising Mrs. F. B. Clarke
Mrs. R. M. Newport, Mrs. D. FL. Moon, Mrs.
c. P. Moves, Mrs. j. A. Wheelock and Mrs
Kenneth Clark, is making preparations Tor a
grand recital and ball for the benegt OF the
Milford home and the wOman,s exchange, to
be held at Turner hall Oct T.. feature OF
the evenings entertainment will be the re-
cital by Prof. George Riddle of selections
from midsummer Nights Dream" The
evening will close with q ball.